As people across the globe celebrate World Poetry Day on March 21, we delve into the world of poetry in ancient Greece, from ...

The Malazan Book of The Fallen did for literature what Dark Souls did for video games. Like any self-respecting FromSoft game, Steven Erikson’s Fallen series is as epic as it is esoteric.

As you know, this remarkable and delightful Northern Thousand-and-one-Nights contains within itself the compressed outlines and materials of a score of independent Epics, some of which have been ...

27th century BC) 1 is famed as being the first corpus of epic literature known to man. It is also a source of much conjecture, for the hero king on whom the story is based, Gilgamesh is quoted as ...

Sithar Dorje is the first storyteller to hold a master's degree. He was discovered to have the talent to recite thousands of ...

Over two thousand years, the Ramayana has accumulated several layers, troubling both the liberal and the orthodox factions.

Why is this? This course will introduce you to some major epic and romance texts of the Middle Ages, such as Beowulf, The Song of Romance, and The Death of King Arthur. We will aim to understand the ...